1. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a man who was able to free himself and his wife asked in the letter for what to happen?
(a) The receiver of the letter to find his family for him.
(b) The receiver of the letter to write to Abraham Lincoln on his behalf.
(c) The receiver of the letter to care for his wife while he searches for the rest of his family.
(d) The receiver of the letter to help free the rest of his family.

2. The speaker remembers angels once in a hotel room. Why were they there?
(a) To pass on a message to her.
(b) To scare her.
(c) To take to her heaven.
(d) To observe her.

3. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," if these people turn out to be evil, then the speaker and others like her will meet this evil how?
(a) With even more evil.
(b) By fleeing to Canada.
(c) With peace.
(d) As best they can.

4. What causes the speaker in "Wade in the Water" painful grief?
(a) The people in chains.
(b) The woman going to each stranger saying, "I love you" and meaning it.
(c) The river in which people wade.
(d) The fear in everyone's eyes.

5. Why are sentences left incomplete in "Declaration"?
(a) To show the confusion of the speaker.
(b) To confuse the reader.
(c) To reveal how the lives of the characters are incomplete.
(d) To leave it to the reader to fill in the blank of what has been stolen or destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” the speaker says, although the slaves are now free, they are not really free, because they do what?

2. The character in "Hill Country" can almost believe in what?

3. How does "Wade in the Water" end?

4. In "The Angels," who does the speaker say spoke to angels as she was dying?

5. In Stanza 3 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," the speaker says that the entire country may not be able to heal from what?

(see the answer key)

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